Sex Drive, the director's cut

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Sex Drive, the director's cut

A few quotes I had to cut from the column about webAffairs, but that I like:

One French man, who at the time worked for the government, literally in the White House (equivalent in) the French government, said "I have no problem with it." Then I asked "What would your boss think of it?" And he said, "He wouldn't think anything. He's a conservative politicitan but everyone understands sex is your own business and you don't impose values on sex here." That was surprising to me.

– Show-n-tell, on how people responded when she told them she was creating a book about the chat room

Mr Clean, in the last dialog (in the book), he's French and his English is very broken but you understand what he says. "This is just a phase. The internet is not enough." Right around that time he meets a girl in real life and starts dating and I stopped seeing him online.

It's just one part of our existence, it can't be the entire thing. People say "oh this is so sad, people are so pathetic." I think well, yeah, there are sad people everywhere the world; these people are no more sad or pathetic than anyone else. It becomes really sad when this becomes the only place to interact, socialize, to have sexual or romantic experiences. But when it integrates into your life....

That's been the debate in our culture since the turn of the century, that machines are going to dehumanize us. We're transitioning into this becoming part of our lives. Did the telephone hurt us? Yes it did. But did it help us? Of course it did.

– Show-n-tell, answering a common misconception people have about online chat